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Improbable libraries

Hardcover • 2015 • English • 1. edition

Improbable libraries

By Alex Johnson

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About the book

From the rise of the egalitarian Little Free Library movement (motto: Take a book, return a book) to the growth in luxury hotel libraries, Alex Johnson whose parents were both librarians maps out the history and future of the 21st-century library revolution in seven thematic chapters, each consisting of a brief essay followed by illustrated project profiles. Whether by bike in Chicago or by donkey in Colombia, librarians all over the world are coming up with astonishingly ingenious ways of ensur...Show more

Library, archive and information management

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ISBN

9780500517772

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2015

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Improbable libraries

Format

Hardcover

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